Queen Rearing Calendar for 8/8/2014 Brought to you by The Beekeepers of the Susquehanna Valley www.thebeeyard.org	Mother Colony Name/ID
		Grafting Medium Used
		Cell Cup Style/Color
		Grafter's Name

Day #	DOW	Date	Task/Status	Notes
1	Tuesday	8/5	The egg is laid by the queen mother.
2	Wednesday	8/6
3	Thursday	8/7	Select or create a queenless starter hive	Starter hive Name/ID:
4	Friday	8/8	Graft the day-old larvae into cell cups, and insert into a queenless cell builder colony.	Number of Cells Grafted:
5	Saturday	8/9
6	Sunday	8/10	Check your grafts: the bees should have started to to draw out the cells and feed the larvae with royal jelly. If not, re-graft.	Number of Cells Accepted:
7	Monday	8/11
8	Tuesday	8/12
9	Wednesday	8/13	Queen cells are capped
10	Thursday	8/14	Sensitive developmental phase - do not move cells and be very gentle when opening the hive.
11	Friday	8/15
12	Saturday	8/16
13	Sunday	8/17	Move the capped queen cells into mating nucs
14	Monday	8/18
15	Tuesday	8/19
16	Wednesday	8/20	Queens hatch
17	Thursday	8/21
18	Friday	8/22	Discard any unhatched cells
19	Saturday	8/23
20	Sunday	8/24
21	Monday	8/25	Mating Flights
22	Tuesday	8/26
23	Wednesday	8/27
24	Thursday	8/28
25	Friday	8/29
26	Saturday	8/30
27	Sunday	8/31
28	Monday	9/1
29	Tuesday	9/2
30	Wednesday	9/3
31	Thursday	9/4
32	Friday	9/5
33	Saturday	9/6
34	Sunday	9/7	Check Nuc for eggs.
35	Monday	9/8
36	Tuesday	9/9
37	Wednesday	9/10
38	Thursday	9/11
39	Friday	9/12	Check Nuc for larvae.
40	Saturday	9/13	Larvae found? If so, the queen is ready!
41	Sunday	9/14	Re-queen if no eggs are present.

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